John Herbert Brown         Photo: Knud Riis        Updated:  29 SEP 2014

Airman: a063002.htm

Surname: Brown Init: J H

Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 144

P_link: p025.htm Plane: HAM X2973

Operation: Bomb G

Crash_site: Off Frisian Islands.

Crash_d: d171040 Buried_d: b081240

C_link: c063.htm At_Next: Nr. Haurvig
 

Den 17. oktober 1940 styrtede HAM X2973 i Nordsøen. Det startede fra RAF Hemswell
kl. 22.00 den 16. oktober 1940. (Kilde: MACR)

"På hjemturen fra et bombetogt over Tyskland udsendte Hampden X 2973 den 17. oktober 1940
SOS signal fra en position (omkring her) ca. 20 miles nord for Terschelling Fyrtårn.

Den 3. december 1940 fandt man et besætningsmedlem fra dette fly, J. H. Brown, drevet i land
ved Haurvig (omkring her). Begravelsen (på Nr. Haurvig Kirkegård) foregik den 8. december. De 3 øvrige besætningsmedlemmer forsvandt i havet." (FAF)

Sergeant (Pilot) John Herbert Brown, 24 år, var søn af Albert og Lily N. Brown, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC og MACR)
JOHN HERB. BROWN, OFFICER I RAF, INDRV V HAURVIG, 3.12.1940, BEGRV. 8.12.1940
4 flyvere.

On 17 October 1940 HAM X2973 crashed into the North Sea. It took off from RAF Hemswell at 2200 hrs on 16 October 1940. (Source: MACR)
On 17 October 1940 on the return flight from a bombing raid on Germany Hampden X 2973 sent an SOS signal from a position (about here) about 20 miles north of Terschelling Lighthouse.

On 3 December 1940 the body of J. H. Brown was found washed ashore near Haurvig (about  here). He was buried in Norre Haurvig Churchyard on 8 December 1940.
The 3 other crew members disappeared into the sea. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Pilot) John Herbert Brown, 24, was the son of Albert and Lily N. Brown, of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC and MACR)
Treasured memories

See Bomber Command No. 144 Squadron  and 144 Squadron at RAF-Lincolnshire.info. This Hampden took off from RAF Hemswell. 4 airmen.